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The Dot.Com Terrorist
jeff hanley, 32, is reeling from the failure of quickrabbit, a san francisco dotcom company where he was the vp of software. his dedication to the company has caused jeff's chinese-american wife, cheri, to divorce him and keep jeff's two sons away from him. quickrabbit's failure has left jeff with a large and inescapable debt to the irs.
jeff's leap off the golden gate bridge is aborted by achmed fandy, who attempts to recruit jeff for a terrorist suicide mission. achmed introduces jeff to khalid, an arabic graduate student dedicated to saving muslims from western influence. jeff declines to participate but suggests that khalid could do more damage, and publicize his organization's message by launching a worm (virus) on the internet. jeff is impressed by khalid's discipline and sense of purpose and decides to find out more about him.
jeff negotiates a deal with the terrorists whereby they will kill eric, the venture capitalist who led jeff into quickrabbit, and give jeff $100,000 in cash. eric is pushed out of his office window by an arabic-looking stranger.
jeff delivers the “jihad” computer virus to the terrorists and mails the cash they give him to cheri. driving the suicide van the next day, jeff snatches the remote detonator and blows up aAchmed and khalid far away from their intended target. jeff must now evade both the terrorists and the fbi. realizing the terrorists may take revenge on cheri, jeff convinces her to visit her wealthy cousin raymond in hong kong.
jeff is now recruited to join a new startup that may put him on a new financial footing. he learns the man who pushed eric out a window was a disgruntled employee and had no connection to the terrorists. some parts of jeff's life are looking up.
but jeff is suddenly kidnapped by men he believes to be the terrorist group. he learns that they are criminals who planned to use the explosion to cover a smuggling operation. khalid, a dedicated radical islamist, never knew about this. but now the smugglers want the $100,000 back that they channeled to jeff. they threaten to kill him and are just about to do so when the entire gang is massacred by a rival group.
the fbi contacts jeff without revealing how they found him. they report that all members of the terrorist group have left the country. they have no reason to detain jeff because he has told them everything he knows and, to many people, he would be a hero for preventing the death and destruction that would have resulted from the bomb exploding at the target. jeff is now able to call hong kong and tell cheri she can come home. he is anticipating a reconciliation.
jeff's leap off the golden gate bridge is aborted by achmed fandy, who attempts to recruit jeff for a terrorist suicide mission. achmed introduces jeff to khalid, an arabic graduate student dedicated to saving muslims from western influence. jeff declines to participate but suggests that khalid could do more damage, and publicize his organization's message by launching a worm (virus) on the internet. jeff is impressed by khalid's discipline and sense of purpose and decides to find out more about him.
jeff negotiates a deal with the terrorists whereby they will kill eric, the venture capitalist who led jeff into quickrabbit, and give jeff $100,000 in cash. eric is pushed out of his office window by an arabic-looking stranger.
jeff delivers the “jihad” computer virus to the terrorists and mails the cash they give him to cheri. driving the suicide van the next day, jeff snatches the remote detonator and blows up aAchmed and khalid far away from their intended target. jeff must now evade both the terrorists and the fbi. realizing the terrorists may take revenge on cheri, jeff convinces her to visit her wealthy cousin raymond in hong kong.
jeff is now recruited to join a new startup that may put him on a new financial footing. he learns the man who pushed eric out a window was a disgruntled employee and had no connection to the terrorists. some parts of jeff's life are looking up.
but jeff is suddenly kidnapped by men he believes to be the terrorist group. he learns that they are criminals who planned to use the explosion to cover a smuggling operation. khalid, a dedicated radical islamist, never knew about this. but now the smugglers want the $100,000 back that they channeled to jeff. they threaten to kill him and are just about to do so when the entire gang is massacred by a rival group.
the fbi contacts jeff without revealing how they found him. they report that all members of the terrorist group have left the country. they have no reason to detain jeff because he has told them everything he knows and, to many people, he would be a hero for preventing the death and destruction that would have resulted from the bomb exploding at the target. jeff is now able to call hong kong and tell cheri she can come home. he is anticipating a reconciliation.
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First published February 17, 2008
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About the author
Ted Haynes
9 books22 followersTed Haynes is the author of Pole Pedal Murder (on sale July 12, 2022), The Mt. Bachelor Murders, The Mirror Pond Murders, Suspects (all four books in the Northwest Murder Mystery series), On the Road from Burns (short stories), The Dot.com Terrorist (a novel), and co-author of Vandevert – The Hundred Year History of a Central Oregon Ranch. He studied fiction writing at Dartmouth College, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University. Ted first visited Central Oregon in 1975 and has loved it ever since. He and his wife have a log house on the Little Deschutes River.
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April 23, 2020
I received a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway.
I made it about 15% of the way through this before I deleted it from my Kindle in disgust because I absolutely abhorred the main character. I suppose maybe that's the point, but I don't enjoy reading books that don't allow me to connect with ANYTHING about the main character. Had he been willing to admit any fault in anything at all I might have been able to find some redeeming value, but there was absolutely nothing about this that I enjoyed.
I made it about 15% of the way through this before I deleted it from my Kindle in disgust because I absolutely abhorred the main character. I suppose maybe that's the point, but I don't enjoy reading books that don't allow me to connect with ANYTHING about the main character. Had he been willing to admit any fault in anything at all I might have been able to find some redeeming value, but there was absolutely nothing about this that I enjoyed.
September 3, 2018
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When his dot.com business fails as well as his marriage, he receives a strange proposition from a strange. He is face with a moral dilemma if an act of terrorism justifies having enough money to support his wife and children.
A gripping read as how things can go out of control so quickly.
When his dot.com business fails as well as his marriage, he receives a strange proposition from a strange. He is face with a moral dilemma if an act of terrorism justifies having enough money to support his wife and children.
A gripping read as how things can go out of control so quickly.
September 9, 2018
Interesting for techies. A lot of what's going on in the headlines today. Slow moving book. Not very much action.
Going on. Not my genre of book. But current in the subject of the book. Terrorists, bombs, campus recruiters, computer programming, and worms.
Going on. Not my genre of book. But current in the subject of the book. Terrorists, bombs, campus recruiters, computer programming, and worms.
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